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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

On the web: syzygy.fm | Twitter: @syzygypod

Things we talk about in this episode:
The Super Wolf Blood Moon of 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBWYEffBpW0

Meteorite impact during eclipse: https://www.space.com/43075-blood-moon-2019-meteor-impact-video.html

Future Eclipses: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html

Got some spare dough? Send Emily and Chris to this eclipse! https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2020-december-14

Moon’s shadow on the Earth during solar eclipse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEJuBrRwlU4

TESS website: https://www.nasa.gov/tess-transiting-exoplanet-survey-satellite

Juno mission photography: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/Juno

TESS First Light: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1523/first-light-tess-shares-first-science-image-in-hunt-to-find-new-worlds/

First exoplanets from TESS data: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1542/nasas-tess-rounds-up-its-first-planets-snares-far-flung-supernovae/

Gamma Dor stars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_Doradus_variable

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

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Things we talk about in this episode:

The early solar system: https://www.space.com/35526-solar-system-formation.html 

Stellar nurseries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_formation 

Pillars of creation: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-pillars-of-creation 

The Snow Line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_line_(astrophysics) 

Models of planet formation: http://cosmicdiary.org/geminiplanetimager/2015/09/16/what-do-we-know-about-planet-formation/

Where did Earth’s water come from? https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/where-did-earth-get-its-water 

Jupiter and Saturn migration: https://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/young-jupiter.html 

Hot Jupiters: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/investigating-the-mystery-of-migrating-hot-jupiters 

Hoptunes: http://kiaa.pku.edu.cn/news/2018/introducing-hoptunes-new-class-exoplanets-could-help-solve-mystery-worlds-scorching-orbits 

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

On the web: syzygy.fm | Twitter: @syzygypod

Things we talk about in this episode:

Image 1, The Pillars of Creation, from Time Magazine’s 100 Photos site: http://100photos.time.com/photos/nasa-pillars-of-creation

The Pillars of Creation — 2015 update: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-pillars-of-creation

Comparing the two images: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1501d/

Modelling the Pillars in 3D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWklVPvk0C8

Image 2, Huge Hubble panorama of Andromeda galaxy: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/

Zoom into Andromeda! https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/zoomable/

A video zoom into the Andromeda image: https://youtu.be/aLlQxsGyhnw

A fly-through in 4k: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU

The zoom that broke Chris’s brain: http://hubblesite.org/image/3478/news_release/2015-02

Chris’s video on Andromeda’s awesomeness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wicEtpPfry4

Chris Baker, Galaxy on Glass: https://galaxyonglass.com

Image 3, Chris’s Witch’s Broomstick: https://galaxyonglass.com/product/supernova-the-witchs-broom/

The Witch’s Broom, a.k.a The Veil Nebula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_Nebula

The Cygnus Loop Nebula: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/pia15415.html

Image 4, Chris’s Rosette: https://galaxyonglass.com/product/the-rosette/

The Rosette Nebula: https://oneminuteastronomer.com/2477/rosette-nebula/

Strömgren Spheres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strömgren_sphere

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

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Things we talk about in this episode:

The merging galaxies paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0652-7

Hubblesite article about the story: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/astronomers-unveil-growing-black-holes-in-colliding-galaxies

Simulations of galaxy collisions: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10687

Stephan’s Quintet: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140327.html

Keck Observatory: http://www.keckobservatory.org

Gravitational wave discovery: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20170927

Simulations of SMBH mergers: https://www.space.com/42017-merging-supermassive-black-holes-eerie-glow.html

Milky Way and Andromeda are going to collide: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/milky-way-collide.html

And they will form … Milkdromeda! https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30955

Andromeda in the night sky: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061228.html

If only Andromeda was a bit brighter: http://i.imgur.com/EpuhHJa.png

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

On the web: syzygy.fm | Twitter: @syzygypod

Things we talk about in this episode:

YorNight 2018: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/yornight/2018/

The Kepler mission: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler

Kepler runs out of fuel: https://www.space.com/41363-kepler-exoplanet-hunting-telescope-dead.html

TESS: https://tess.gsfc.nasa.gov

NASA’s heart-tugging animation: https://nasaviz.gsfc.nasa.gov/20284

NASA’s Exoplanet Travel Bureau: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worlds/exoplanet-travel-bureau/

Kepler 78b: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/226/kepler-78b/

Kepler 186f: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/198/kepler-186f-the-first-earth-size-planet-in-the-habitable-zone-artists-concept/

Kepler 64b: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/222/kepler-64b-four-star-planet/

Musical note: Chris would like to acknowledge that he now realises that The Exoplanet Song’s chorus melody is really quite similar to the verse melody from Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours”. And by “quite similar” he means “almost identical to”. He’d like to point out that he did have a sneaking suspicion there was a reason the song had come to him so quickly … So, you know, thanks Jason.)

SYZYGY LIVE! Join us for a very special live podcast recording at the University of York’s YorNight 2018: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/yornight/2018/

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

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Things we talk about in this episode:

Chris’s video about the cosmic distance ladder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFoHlWK571k

The AU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit

A very simple Parallax explanation: https://youtu.be/iwlMmJs1f5o

Parsec definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec

Cepheid Variables: https://www.space.com/15396-variable-stars.html

NGC 4258: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/m106/

Type 1a Supernovae: https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/supernovae2.html

Edwin Hubble: https://www.spacetelescope.org/about/history/the_man_behind_the_name/

Redshift and blueshift: https://www.space.com/25732-redshift-blueshift.html

Hubble’s Constant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EP5cNoNuXo

The expanding universe as explained by Brian Cox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR6wN8ym7SI

SYZYGY LIVE! Join us for a very special live podcast recording at the University of York’s YorNight 2018: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/yornight/2018/

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Visit us at syzygy.fm or find us on Twitter: @syzygypod

Things we talk about in this episode:

SYZYGY LIVE! Podcast recording at YorNight 2018 https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/yornight/2018/

NASA’s Mercury page: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/mercury/overview/

NASA’s Messenger Mission: https://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-s-messenger-spacecraft-10-years-in-space

BepiColombo’s going to Mercury: http://sci.esa.int/bepicolombo/59288-bepicolombo-s-journey-to-mercury/

JAXA, Japan’s space agency: http://global.jaxa.jp

Giuseppe “Bepi” Colombo: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Welcome_to_ESA/ESA_history/Giuseppe_Bepi_Colombo_Grandfather_of_the_fly-by

ESA’s video showing BepiColombo’s journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yp-q1wqgig

Animation of Mercury’s 3:2 orbital resonance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUde7LFOlPs

Tidal Locking: https://www.universetoday.com/123391/what-is-tidal-locking/

Ice on Mercury: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/water-ice-on-mercury/

Colour maps of Mercury: https://www.universetoday.com/102901/messengers-unique-view-a-colorful-spinning-planet-mercury/

The solar wind: https://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SolarWind.shtml

The Great Observatories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Observatories_program

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Visit us at syzygy.fm or find us on Twitter: @syzygypod

Things we talk about in this episode:

SYZYGY LIVE! Podcast recording at YorNight 2018 https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/yornight/2018/

Fermi’s new constellations for the high-energy sky: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/yornight/2018/

Imaging the SMBH at the centre of the Milky Way: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/magazine/how-do-you-take-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-with-a-telescope-as-big-as-the-earth.html

Event Horizon Telescope: https://eventhorizontelescope.org

Emily’s Astrocampus at the Uni of York : https://eventhorizontelescope.org

Sagittarius A*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*

Star S2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2_(star)

A truck-full of data: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

The Black Hole (movie): https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1002497_black_hole

Interstellar (movie): https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/interstellar_2014

The physics of the Interstellar black hole: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-black-hole/

Gravitational lensing: https://www.spacetelescope.org/science/gravitational_lensing/

Pale Blue Dot: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/536/pale-blue-dot/

Carl Sagan on the Pale Blue Dot image: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Visit us at syzygy.fm or find us on Twitter: @syzygypod

Things we talk about in this episode:

Kepler mission: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/

Kepler’s been put to sleep: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/kepler-put-into-sleep-mode-as-telescope-s-pointing-performance-degrades

Hubble’s gyro problems: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/hubble-space-telescope-taken-offline-after-gyroscope-failure/

Exomoon paper: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/10/eaav1784

Moons of the Solar System: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/in-depth/

Saturn’s moonlets: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/31/saturns-rings-contain-millions-moonlets-new-nasa-images-reveal-cassini

Jupiter’s rings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Jupiter

Multiple star systems: https://www.universetoday.com/132154/multiple-star-systems/

Pluto & Charon: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-and-charon-new-horizons-dynamic-duo

Animations of the Pluto-Charon binary: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Animations/Pluto-System.php